Cathedral FLANN O' BRIEN Mario Puzo’s classic saga of

Mario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story

' Sarah Waters

Cathedral FLANN O' BRIEN Mario Puzo’s classic saga of'All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious power' Daily Telegraph Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of